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Is the Grift Worth Nuclear War?
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Is the Grift Worth Nuclear War?

The ruling class of The United States of Enron will gladly destroy humanity to stay in power; like Milton's devil, they would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven...

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Oct 03, 2022
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Ready to die for the Ponzi Scheme known as the Federal Reserve? Or maybe we’ll survive and merely face a post-apocalyptic hellscape of famine, nuclear winter, long-term blackouts, infrastructure collapse, and so forth. All to save the grift known as the U.S. Dollar.

As the not-so-great 20th-Century poet Puff Daddy once observed, “It’s all about the Benjamin’s, baby (uh huh, yeah).” And that appears to be true of the American attack on Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines, just as it has been true of America’s forever wars, the CIA-sponsored color revolutions (including the one in Ukraine in 2014 that gave us the Zalensky regime), the “Green Energy” Inc. movement that has put the populations of America’s European satrapies on the verge of freezing to death this winter, etc. Doesn’t matter how many people suffer and die, as long as the United States of Enron’s war-on-humanity machine keeps churning out profits for the elites.

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Tara Servatius @TaraServatius
1) The target of the US terror attack on the Nords wasn't Russia. It was Germany because they were considering lifting sanctions on Russia. That required them to pay in Rubles, rather than dollars. Every country that has said they will no longer buy energy in US dollars ...
9:51 PM ∙ Oct 2, 2022
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2) has been overthrown within 2 years for the last 20 years. (See Libya and Iraq.) Why do we care what they pay for energy in? Because if counties don't buy their energy in dollars, the dollar's value will tank and Congress can no longer print money. Their printing press is gone.
9:54 PM ∙ Oct 2, 2022
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So to keep Germany from backing down and buying fuel from Russia (ungood) in rubles (double-plus ungood), America (either directly on its own or indirectly through one of its proxies) attacked Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines, which is the one thing that had given Russia leverage over Germany. This leverage was important because Russia had seemingly hoped to get Germany to stop participating in the American-led sanctions and to stop supporting Ukraine with subsidies and armaments. And now that Russia’s leverage over Germany is gone, the possibility of getting Ukraine to the bargaining table to stop the war has effectively been dynamited, just like the pipelines.

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Sharmine Narwani @snarwani
US @SecBlinken offers motive for #NordStream's destruction: "A tremendous opportunity to remove the dependence on Russian energy."
1:19 PM ∙ Oct 2, 2022
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Of course, the USA is denying responsibility — after President Biden and Victoria Nuland had promised that America would do it, and after Secretary Blinken crowed about what a great opportunity the pipelines’ destruction gave America. But forget about all that, the official explanation will probably involve the pipelines committing suicide, like Jeffrey Esptein…

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World Ecommunist Forum @EcommunistForum
Investigators have concluded the #NordStream pipeline committed suicide after the guards fell asleep and security cameras stopped working.
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But seriously, folks . . .

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For real, the Fed’s modern monetary theory-driven game of musical chairs is about to end, and we’re short a whole lot of seats. And the fiddler will be demanding payment in full for that ride we’ve been on the past few decades.

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